Stockton-on-Tees, UK – February 11, 2016 — /BackupReview.info/ — Onyx Group’s Cloud Backup partner, Asigra, has been nominated as a finalist in the Storage Provider Magazine Product of the Year Awards.

Each year a panel of providers, users, magazine editors and independent experts nominate finalists for the various categories within the awards. The categories are Backup Hardware, Storage Management Tools, Storage System Software, All-flash systems, Disk and Hybrid, and Backup Software, within which Asigra have been selected.

This nomination sees Asigra mentioned alongside some of the biggest names in backup technology including Barracuda, Hitachi, HP, and Oracle. Asigra are delighted to be held in such high regard having commented via their blog “We are very pleased to be included as a finalist in such a high calibre group of solutions.”

The release of Version 13 of their software has seen Asigra solidify its place as one of the leading players in the Backup industry. Having won the TechTarget Quality Award for Top Enterprise Backup in August 2015, this is the fourth consecutive year that Asigra has been selected as a finalist in the Product of the Year awards and they are looking to retain their title having won the award in 2014.

Asigra Cloud Backup Version 13 introduced a new backup management model which makes it easier for users to get the best value from their backup solution. This Backup Lifecycle Management, or BLM, can automatically categorise and prioritise your data dramatically increasing the efficiency of your backups. In real world terms, this could mean that data you don’t update and only keep for regulatory purposes, is not backed up with the same frequency as critical data which might change on a daily or hourly basis.

Following these upgrades, Asigra boasts one of the most complete set of capabilities in the industry with:

If you would like to find out more about how a backup solution from Onyx and Asigra, could be the ideal solution for your business, head over to our Cloud Backup page or get in touch to speak to a member of the team.

About Onyx
From beginnings as an Internet Service Provider in 1994, Onyx has developed and matured into one of the leading providers of IT infrastructure and support services across the UK.

After celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2014, Onyx truly has the longevity and experience to understand how in a technological world, highly effective IT is core to business success. That is why Onyx prides itself on delivering superior IT infrastructure and support.

Onyx achieve this by investing in: Superior People – Onyx searches the market to ensure it employs the best IT talent in the UK; Superior Technology – by constantly researching and testing, Onyx ensures that it uses the best technology; Superior Infrastructure – Onyx is continually investing in IT infrastructure to ensure that its clients get the best the UK has to offer.

About Asigra
Trusted since 1986, Asigra provides organizations around the world the ability to recover their data now from anywhere through a global network of partners who deliver cloud backup and recovery services as public, private and/or hybrid deployments. As the industry’s first enterprise-class agentless cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, databases and applications, SaaS and IaaS based applications, Asigra lowers the total cost of ownership, reduces recovery time objectives, eliminates silos of backup data by providing a single consolidated repository, and provides 100% recovery assurance. Asigra’s revolutionary patent-pending Recovery License Model provides organizations with a cost effective data recovery business model unlike any other offered in the storage market. Asigra has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor and has been included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software since 2010. In 2014, Asigra Cloud Backup was also named the Top Enterprise Backup Solution and Product of the Year by Storage Magazine. More information on Asigra can be found at www.asigra.com.